Reflection on "God's Little Toys," by William Gibson

Based on William Gibson's early experience with writing and literature, I believe he valued the thoughts of other writers at a young age. The thought or idea that Gibson brings to my attention, in which he loved how writing could be fragmented and taken from different sources, plays a role in which the article is written in. Making the reader read text from different source and molding them together to make something new, tells writers that writing can be an art in which information can be reused, and rethink to someone else's idea. I like the emphasis on how audiotape was one of the first kinds of media, to make new sense or new language out of old language. I like that idea of talking old ideas and making new ones by mixing an idea with another. Basically, trying to compose the idea of forming a new emphasis on two different ideas and making them work.

While learning became reading, and reading turned into exploration, as we head towards using cyberspace as a tool for communication and literature, we can say that the idea of cut and past is nothing new. Gibson talks about the ideas of famous artist like Picasso, Duchamp, and Godard, cut and paste was the inspiration to express new ideas through art. The same probably goes for cutting and pasting in cyberspace and I believe Gibson express the idea very clearly.

With the idea of remixing things, I believe its cool to revisit old ideas like Gibson mentions, and with new emphasis make it become something totally new or fashionable. Gibson, I believe, is only expressing the idea that cut and paste was something that our culture and other cultures, and even genders did over periods of time. With the styles of cloths today, I can see a lot of my friends are wearing treads from the Seventies and Sixties that also goes for music and video games. New ideas, only spawn from old ones, in which case to make old ideas better. So, without say, I can see what Gibson is talking about, how we live in a world in which almost everything, in based on something else.

Reading/Source:

-Gibson, William. "God's Little Toys." Hot Wired Magazine. July 2005. 19 Nov. 2005. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/gibson.html